Pigmeat | fr

A Dutch two-man band from Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands. They have had a good live reputation for over fifteen years, with short up-tempo songs which don't last longer than 3 minutes and are made up from an original mixture of folk, bluegrass, pop and country. The members of Pigmeat (not Pig Meat btw) are Jankobus Seunnenga and Sytse Haima (real Frisian names). They play many instruments. At the album "Oomph" (1993) for instance, they played "C & W guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, banjo (6-str. & 5 string), mandolin, fiddle, bass-drum, big frum, tambourine, tringle,...

Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham (April 18, 1904 – December 13, 1981) was an American entertainer. Though best known as a comedian, Markham was also a singer, dancer, and actor. His nickname came from a stage routine, in which he declared himself to be "Sweet Poppa Pigmeat." He was sometimes credited in films as David "Pigmeat" Markham. He was born in the community of Hayti, Durham, North Carolina. His family was the most prominent on their street, which came to be called (and later officially named) Markham Street in the Hayti District. Markham began his career in traveling music and burlesque shows....

Pigmeat Terry, "Black Sheep Blues" Pigmeat Terry was one of many singers who were "iographical ciphers emerged from their anonymous dark, made 78 rpm recordings, and were promptly swallowed up by darkness again" according to the description John Fahey's Revenant label gave them. AMERICAN PRIMITIVE V. 2 was Fahey's final curatorial effort for the label her started, and it comtained this song, haunted by Pigmeat Terry's otherworldly voice. .